The Benedictine Abbey Göttweig, founded in 1083 by Bishop Altmann of Passau, was subjected to reprisals by the local Nazi authorities shortly after Austria's annexation to the Nazi German Reich in March 1938 and was confronted with dem

Maria Brunner, who joined the NSDAP in 1941, worked from January 1944 as an assistant for the "Sonderauftrag coins".

The numismatist Fritz Dworschak took advantage of the Nazi era to assume central functions in the Vienna museum scene.

In 1938, Leo Fürst, who lived at Maria-Theresien-Straße 16/4 <

Following the Munich Agreement of 29 September 1938, German troops invaded the Sudetenland, until then part of Czechoslovakia, on 2 October 1938.

After leaving school in 1920, Eduard Holzmair worked for several years at the Anglo-Austrian Bank in Vienna, before studying German, history and art history at the University of Vienna.

Liselotte Seutter von Loetzen, daughter of a bank director who died young and a potter, had considerable (professional) experience, when she became involved in the "Sonderauftrag Münzen" in October 1942.